Constantino v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2016
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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“[u]nlike a setoff, recoupment was required to arise out of the same set of transactions as the claim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Recoupment" means a deduction from a money claim through a process whereby cross demands arising out of the same transaction are allowed to compensate one another and the balance only to be recovered * * *. Of course, such a process does not allow one transaction to be offset against another, but only permits a transaction which is made the subject of suit by a plaintiff to be examined in all its aspects, and judgment to be rendered that does justice in view of the one transaction as a whole. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The right to plead recoupment as a defense remains intact * * * notwithstanding the subsequent absorption of the common-law doctrines of setoff and recoupment by the present statutory definition of counterclaim. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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